By Jailene Giron
Scarlett Johansson continues to make its way in the business field with its skin care brand “The Outset”, launched in March 2022 together with Kate Foster, which seeks to promote a minimalist routine that highlights pure beauty. And, according to a recent testimony, The famous woman experienced first-hand the pressure that Hollywood can exert to maintain a “perfect” image from an early age.
It was during an interview given to the CBS Sunday Morning program that The protagonist of “Blackwidow” reflected on the media context of the time in which she began her career as an actressnoting that women “were picked apart for their appearance in a way that was socially acceptable at the time.”
“I think growing up in the entertainment industry and being a twenty-something in the early 2000s, being a 20-year-old woman in the public spotlight at the time, at commonplace was a really tough time.“He declared to the morning newspaper.
In this sense, it revealed that the physical appearance of women was directly related to the type of roles to play within the film industry.
“There was a lot of pressure on women’s appearance and what was offered at the time for women my age, in terms of roles or acting opportunities. Technology much more limited than now“, he lamented.
In the case of Scarlett Johansson, like that of several actresses of her time, she was typecast in roles such as: “the other woman, the secondary lover or the sex bomb.”
Despite her desire to face new challenges on an artistic level, she was affected by the lack of narrative diversity of this decade. “That was an archetype that was abundant when I was that age. It was difficult to get out of that because there were many more things I wanted to do,” he added.
As revealed by the famous woman, the way to break this stereotype was by looking for other alternatives for her growth as an actress. This led her to participate in various performances: “I discovered that doing theater in New York was a great way to work on other registers and get out of that pattern,” he said.
Scarlett Johansson: a career with which she has made history
After several years of struggle, Scarlett Johansson managed to establish herself as one of the most outstanding actors of her generation, even reaching the title of the highest-grossing actress in history with “Jurassic World Rebirth” in 2025.
According to the Hypebeast portal, the most recent installment of the “Jurassic World” franchise raised $318 million globally, which catapulted the value of the famous filmography to just over $14.8 billion dollars.
With this figure, Johansson was placed above film legends such as Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr., who stand at $14.6 billion and $14.3 billion, with 71 and Forty five films, respectively. However, in January 2026, this record was surpassed by Zoe Saldaña thanks to a combined collection of more than $15.4 billion worldwide.
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